Questions tagged [buildroot]

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system, from the cross-compilation toolchain to the complete image for flashing.

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image.

Whenever you post a question about a Buildroot build failure, please always specify the Buildroot version you're using, and attach the complete Buildroot .config file. Without these details, there is absolutely nothing that the Buildroot developers can do to help you.

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cross-compiling pycurl-7.19.5.1

I am trying to cross-compile the latest pycurl package, but the problem may apply to earlier versions as well. My googling has revealed this package not to be very cross-compile friendly. First of, I am using buildroot and the buildroot toolchain(…
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opkg failed to install ipk package

I have created an image with buildroot for raspberry pi 2 and i have included "Opkg" in it. I then manually downloaded "gcc_4.8.3-1_brcm2708.ipk" for it and moved this file into the SD card and logged in to the pi, but now when i run the command…
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Banana Pi & Buildroot

I'm trying to create a customized FS and eventually a kernel for my Banana Pi using BuildRoot. The fact is I'm new to it. Banana Pi isn't part of the pre-made configurations. My main problem is that can't find the specific hardware specs I'm…
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How can I configure an IP address for beaglebone?

I followed the tutorial of free-electrons to configure ip address using rootfs overlay but when I run make I got this error: /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't open configuration file…
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what is the utility of the buildroot on beagleboneBlack?

I don't understand what is the reason of buildroot of a card such as beaglebone black where as it has a Linux system when we bought.What is the utility of the buildroot?
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Network unreachable when address is IPv6 in Buildroot

I created a custom Buildroot 2015.01 distribution w/ 3.10.0 Linux Kernel with enabled IPv6 support in the Toolchain and the uClibc library. There is a strange behaviour that takes place when trying to contact any IPv6 routed address, for example: #…
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Compile libraries for ARM toolchain(buildroot)

I am using buildroot's toolchain to cross compile applications for ARM. However some application requires libraries that are not compiled for that tool chain. I have those libraries on my host tool chain like -ljack, lfftw etc. I need to know that…
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PiTFT "Click" event X.org buildroot

I have been busy with the PiTFT and added the following wiki on github: https://github.com/Junky2008/Buildroot_PiTFT. I still have a problem though. As in the wiki, the screen, touch and X.org server work. I have calibrated the touchscreen and i can…
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How do I patch a buildroot recipe?

I followed the directions in the buildroot documentation but I think they may be wrong. My patch never gets applied. To be clear, I am not trying to patch files in the "output" directory, which is what I think the directions are describing. I'm…
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Is it possible to use current Buildroot for Raspberry Pi 2

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/board/raspberrypi/readme.txt states the following — where the last line is the interesting one: The raspberrypi_defconfig configuration is a minimal configuration with all that is required to bring the…
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Buildroot ARM Toolchain for arm7tdmi to compile SourceForge Archopen

I'm interested in compiling the sourceforge project https://svn.code.sf.net/p/archopen/code/ArchOpen/trunk/, and more especifically the app AOnes, which is a NES emulator for Archos Gmini 400 (Inactive old project) Analyzing the source code, I saw…
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Buildroot patches not being found?

My question is a variation of this one. In fact, this one is also related expect he is actually farther along than I am. From what I can tell, I cannot get buildroot to find and apply any of my patches. I've followed the formatting instructions to…
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Microblaze linux stop booting at "bootconsole[earlyser0] disabled"

I want embed linux on a nexys 4 ddr board. I made an essential system: microblaze+ddr+uartlite+gpios Linux image is made by build root 2014.05 Linux boot stop after bootconsole[earlyser0] disabled. some thing of strange happen: i put…
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Kernel logo is not appearing while booting in RPI

I have started using buildroot on my Raspberry Pi (version B - ya the older one not the latest) and everything till now went smooth even I could able to add my own packages and make it part of the build. The resulting kernel as well as the root file…
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Providing an rpm package in virtual rpm package

I want to provide some RPM packages in a virtual RPM package that does not include files. The case is, I create an embedded system with buildroot then RPM takes the version control responsibility. For this reason buildroot images always have the…
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